Different part of the industry, but giving Tim McGraw the Ryan Adams song "When The Stars Go Blue" always rubbed me the wrong way. Same thing with the Darius Rucker version of "Wagon Wheel." I have no idea why Adams or Old Crow are so unmarketable to an audience that allegedly likes country music that it was just…

This is what I was originally trying to get at, though it sounds like I was quick to judge Miss XCX. It just seems like the pop music establishment has been trying to find musicians who they can more effectively market as "authentic" by slapping a co-writer credit in the liner notes. But it still feels and sounds like…

My wife and I were watching and she commented "that's an interesting 'smell my vagina' arm wavy dance move she keeps doing."

Thanks. I think I might just be oblivious to the creative process for straight pop records.

Maybe that's it. I don't follow mainstream pop music all that closely, so my skepticism could totally be the result of ignorance.

Oh, I wasn't aware. Is there an example of a song where she is the sole songwriter?

Does anyone else get really skeptical of the "songwriter" label when it's repeatedly applied to pop musicians who only ever get credited as co-writer in the liner notes?

"Social media has it dramatic ills, but Ferguson certainly wouldn't have the news coverage it does without Twitter."

There are more than a few, agnostic-to-atheist addicts who took the AA route who would probably disagree with you. Roger Ebert comes immediately to mind. David Foster Wallace, though I don't know if his religious views were ever made explicit, certainly seemed to take the "higher power" to mean something other than…

Nothing says punk rock like a "blow out 40th birthday party in a hotel's presidential suite."

You should be paying more attention to The Feud. He told a contestant the other day that he hated her baby. Steve Harvey has been killing it lately.

That's a pretty kick ass way to wake up.

Anderson's worst are obviously Moonrise and Grand Budapest. Right? Right?

1. Kill Bill volume 2
2. Pulp Fiction
3. Inglorious Basterds
4. Reservoir Dogs
5. Kill Bill volume 1
6. Django Unchained
7. Death Proof
8. Jackie Brown

Hugo counts. Not sure why it wouldn't. If you have a lazy afternoon you should check it out, though not catching it in a theater and in 3D was a missed opportunity as the movie is a celebration of the magic of the movies. The Méliès re-creations were worth the cost of admission alone.

Shit, you really love this ACDC song.

Dillinger Four's Midwestern Songs Of The Americas came out in 1998 and was one of the best punk rock albums of the decade.